Monday, May 31, 2010

With all the warm and sunny weather we've been having, the plants, flowers and shrubs are really growing. I took a few photos of what was blooming this weekend.

This allium has grown up through the hosta and the blue green leaf of the hosta really shows off the purple in the allium. Our new Fringe Tree in bloom. The roses are blooming. And so are the irises. And the lilies. I took this pic right after we watered. Pinks And another I forget the name of : (

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Happy Sunday! We've been enjoying another wonderful weekend and I've been spending a lot of time outside, its been very relaxing.....almost like vacation in our own backyard!

But I did scrapbook with some fun ladies on Friday night and created two cards for this week's Pile It On challenge, Eat Your Veggies! This theme had me stumped until I browsed for vintage images and found two vintage valentine images that I've used in the cards below.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Hi all! I'm back with another creation for this month's Papertrey bloghop. This month we are to use felt! I also took inspiration for my creation from the Shabby Tea Room and this photo:

And so, here it is:

I created white polka dots and a flower in white felt to accent the PTI blush cardstock. I added a layer of white vellum with PTI twine, silk ribbon and a button. The sentiment is stamped in PTI snow ink.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and can't wait to see how everyone else has used the photo inspiration at The Shabby Tea Room and felt at Papertrey!

Continuing on with highlighting some blogs from my blog reading list, Simply Breakfast and Simply Photo are two blogs I've read almost since I started blogging. I love the rustic nature of the breakfast photos and its interesting to see what's for breakfast too! Simply Photo has awesome photos that I love looking at!

Here is a photo of a breakfast I had this weekend, photo inspired by Simply Breakfast:

I make myself a big batch of steel cut oats on Friday then eat it the rest of the weekend with a few raisins, a bit of brown sugar and milk!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

I thought I'd share another blog that I read almost everyday and it continues along the home decorating theme, My Sweet Savannah. I love the shabby chic, vintage look to the rooms and items posted on this blog.

Here's a few photos from a recent post:

I'm really attracted to the use of white against the natural wood tones. I'm loving the chandeliers too!